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Philosoph, Mitglied der Akademie Platons, Erzieher von Alexander dem Großen, Werke für die Medizin-Geschichte: "De anima - Über die Seele" und "De partibus animalium - Über die Teile der Lebewesen" (Griechenland, 384 - 322 v. Chr.).

Aristoteles · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 10.01.-384 in Stagira/Thrakien
Gestorben am 31.12.-322 in Chalkis/Euböa
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of the circumstances.

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• The law is reason from passion.

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• The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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• The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.

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• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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• The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth while to live.

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• The wonderful is present in everyone of Nature's creatures.

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• The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing.

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• There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

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• There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the shock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of spendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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• Therefore, the good of man must be the end [i.e. objective] of the science of politics.

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

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• To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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• To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power - nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy and noble.

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• Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, effecting through pity and fear the proper purgation (katharsis) of these emotions.

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• Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude . . . by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

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